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Big Pharma's Crime Spree: Drug Makers Pushing Products For Unapproved Uses

Bloomberg | David Evans | Posted 11.09.2009 | Business


Pfizer and Lilly lead a parade of U.S. companies that have paid $7 billion in penalties after promoting drugs for uses not approved by the FDA. This u...

FBI Watch List Includes 400,000 People

Washington Post | Walter Pincus | Posted 10.31.2009 | Politics


During a 12-month period ended in March this year, for example, the U.S. intelligence community suggested on a daily basis that 1,600 people qualified...

Michele Brown: Christie Aide Who Got Loan May Have Helped Chris Christie Campaign For NJ Governor

New York Times | DAVID M. HALBFINGER | Posted 10.19.2009 | New York


When news broke in August that the former United States attorney, Christopher J. Christie, had lent $46,000 to a top aide in the federal prosecutor's ...

Holder's Baby Step On Medical Marijuana

Chris Weigant | Posted 10.25.2009 | Politics


Chris Weigant

Obama's plan is good news for medical marijuana advocates, but although this is a historic shift in the War on Drugs, it does not go far enough because it does not resolve the illogic of the underlying legal issue.

New Medical Marijuana Policy: Obama Administration Will Not Seek Arrests For People Following State Laws

AP | DEVLIN BARRETT | Posted 10.19.2009 | Politics


WASHINGTON — The Obama administration will not seek to arrest medical marijuana users and suppliers as long as they conform to state laws, under...

Roman Polanski's Lawyers Meet With DOJ, Argue Against Extradition

Wall Street Journal | TAMARA AUDI | Posted 10.10.2009 | Entertainment


Lawyers for Roman Polanski met with U.S. Department of Justice officials to make their case against extraditing the 76-year-old fugitive film director...

DoJ Admits Telephone Companies' Role in Secret Spying

Wired | Ryan Singel | Posted 10.09.2009 | Politics


The Department of Justice has finally admitted it in court papers: the nation's telecom companies are an arm of the government -- at least when it co...

One-Third Of Obama's U.S. Attorneys Are Bush Holdovers

Main Justice | Andrew Ramonas | Posted 10.06.2009 | Politics


More than eight months after President Barack Obama took office, one third of the country's U.S. Attorney offices are still run by prosecutors appoint...

Comcast and NBC Universal: Antitrust Apocalypse?

Sam Gustin | Posted 10.01.2009 | Media


Sam Gustin

Federal regulators are virtually certain to scrutinize any substantial pairing of cable leader Comcast (CMSCA) and content behemoth NBC Universal, the...

3 Guantanamo Bay Prisoners Transferred To Ireland, Yemen

AP | Posted 09.27.2009 | World


WASHINGTON — With the closing of the Guantanamo Bay prison by a January deadline in doubt, the Justice Department Saturday announced the transfe...

Jamie Leigh Jones: Halliburton Employee's Gang Rape Not Workplace Injury, Court Rules

Mother Jones | � by Stephanie Mencimer | Posted 11.17.2009 | Business


Remember Jamie Leigh Jones, the Halliburton/KBR contractor who alleged she was gang raped by her co-workers in Iraq and then imprisoned in a shipping ...

Bruce Fein On CIA Torture Investigation: "My Objection Is It's Much Too Narrow," Needs To Include Cheney (VIDEO)

Huffington Post | Nicholas Graham | Posted 10.17.2009 | Politics


Bruce Fein, a former associate deputy attorney general under President Reagan, made a couple of important points tonight on Hardball regarding the inv...

Renzi's Lawyers Argue Bush DOJ Leaked Info For Political Gain On Eve Of Election

Talking Points Memo | Justin Elliott | Posted 10.16.2009 | Politics


We now have the lawyers of a former Republican Congressman arguing that the Bush Administration encouraged the Justice Department to leak information ...

Fire Rove's Prosecutors

Don Siegelman | Posted 09.27.2009 | Politics


Don Siegelman

The Bush era U.S. Attorney firing issue is anything but dead. The people who did Karl Rove's dirty work are still on the job right now because only a handful of the appointees have been replaced.

New Evidence Reveals Feds 'Coached, Cajoled, Threatened' Star Witness in Siegelman Case

Brad Friedman | Posted 08.24.2009 | Politics


Brad Friedman

How it's even possible that former Alabama Governor Don Siegelman's bribery case and conviction has not long ago been dropped by the Dept. of Justice is beyond us.

'Prostitution Pledge' Injunction Appeal Dropped By DOJ

RH Reality Check | Posted 08.22.2009 | World


During a press briefing at the International AIDS Conference in Toronto in 2006, a young Bangladeshi woman invited by the organization for which I was...

Holder Helped Secure Lenient Plea Deal With Bush Lawyers

The Raw Story | Posted 08.21.2009 | Politics


When the US Justice Department announced in March 2007 that Chiquita Brands had pleaded guilty to "one count of engaging in transactions with a specia...

California Removed As Defendant In Federal Gay Marriage Lawsuit

AP/Huffington Post | Posted 08.17.2009 | Politics


SANTA ANA, Calif. (AP) -- A judge has agreed to remove the state of California as a defendant in a lawsuit challenging the 1996 law that prevents the ...

Justice Dept. Abandons Torture-Based Evidence In Gitmo Case

The Washington Independent | Posted 08.16.2009 | Politics


The Justice Department informed a federal district court Wednesday that it was no longer seeking to rely on coerced and tortured evidence in the habea...

DOJ Launches Broad Investigation Into Derivatives Market

nytimes.com | ERIC DASH | Posted 08.15.2009 | Business


The Justice Department is investigating the role of several major companies in the credit markets, in another indication that the government is intens...

Cheney's "Privileged" Interview Already Leaked By Personal Lawyer

Emptywheel | Posted 08.07.2009 | Politics


You know how Obama's DOJ claims that we can't see Cheney's interview with Patrick Fitzgerald because it's privileged? Well, Dick Cheney's lawyer alrea...

Justice Dept. Lawyers Agreed On Legality Of Harsh Interrogations

New York Times | SCOTT SHANE and DAVID JOHNSTON | Posted 07.07.2009 | Politics


When Justice Department lawyers engaged in a sharp internal debate in 2005 over brutal interrogation techniques, even some who believed that using to...

A Fight That Matters

Kathleen Turner | Posted 05.16.2009 | Politics


Kathleen Turner

If Republicans are able to prevent Dawn Johnsen from taking office, they'll have demonstrated an ability to block any nomination for the most craven, partisan reasons.

Hunger for Justice in Maricopa

Crossover Dreams | Posted 05.13.2009 | Politics


Crossover Dreams

Although Julio Mora is a U.S. citizen and his dad has a green card, they were arrested in Phoenix, Arizona, on suspicion of being undocumented aliens. The case is commonplace.

Iranian Businessman Charged In Weapons Smuggling Scheme

Washington Post | Posted 04.16.2009 | World


A Tehran businessman at the center of an alleged international weapons-trafficking scheme was charged today in federal court with violating U.S. expor...